Use gorget in a sentence. a piece of armor to protect the throat. a collar. an article of clothing covering the neck and breast, formerly worn by women; wimple. a patch of color, often iridescent, on the throat of a bird, as on a male hummingbird.
Von Koenigseggâs bald pate and his mellifluous, lightly accented English, not to mention his headquarters on a remote, decommissioned military base, bring to mind a Bond villain. And the association is apt, for while von Koenigseggâs ambitions may not be malevolent, heâs nevertheless bent on world domination, at least in the realm of seven-figure supercars. The automobile industry is littered with the skeletons of failed startups driven by a single manâs all-consuming vision.
During the Holocaust, a German company called IG Farben manufactured the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazi gas chambers. They also funded and helped with Josef Mengele's experiments on concentration camp prisoners. IG Farben is the company that turned the single largest profit from work with the Nazis.After the War, the company was broken up. Bayer was one of its divisions, and went on to become its own company. Oh... and aspirin was founded by a Bayer employee, Arthur Eichengrun.But Eichengrun was Jewish, and Bayer didn't want to admit that a Jewish guy created the one product that keeps their company in business.hat's controversial because Allianz has very famous Nazi ties -- they insured Auschwitz, their CEO was one of Hitler's advisers, and, during the Holocaust, instead of paying life insurance benefits to Jews, they sent that money straight to the Nazis.